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While my heart momentarily stops beating whenever a visitor expresses interest in one of my beloved books, I still continue to lend and share with others. Sometimes the books do come back to you, even if by accident. Once I lent a book to a friend who then lent it to someone else. Two years later I chanced upon it in the house of another friend, who thoughtfully asked me if I would like to borrow it. I told her yes, and brought it home...
Physics, too, seems capricious. Like mathematicians, Jakob notes, the physicists assume at whim and derive the consequences. Classical physics, at least, seemed more commonsensical; it had an other-worldly quality that lent its explanations an almost spiritual legitimacy. Equations alone lacked this aura. Classical physics' beauty, to Jakob, sprang from this peculiar marriage of the physical and the mystical...
...Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries pumped more than oil into the world economy during the 1970s. OPEC also poured billions of dollars that it collected from oil buyers into Western banks operating in the Euromarket, the hub of international finance. Those institutions then lent the funds to borrowers that ranged from Third World governments to multinational corporations. This so-called petrodollar recycling was a major source of cash for world money markets during the past decade...
...Knoxville's shindig is by no means minor league. For a daily admission charge of $9.95, patrons will get the run of exhibits from 23 foreign countries. China has lent an ad hoc museum of treasures, including 20 two-ton bricks from the Great Wall. Among the other 1,000 artifacts coming from the People's Republic: pearl-encrusted tapestries, ancient porcelain and a pair of life-size 3rd century B.C. terra cotta warriors. The Egyptians, too, plan to ship some splendid pieces, including the chariot of Pharaoh Ramses II. Japan's installation, with perhaps a touch...
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them: the only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent...